The phrase "a combination of cost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the various elements or factors that contribute to the overall cost of something.
Example: "The project was delayed due to a combination of cost overruns and scheduling conflicts."
Alternatives: "a mix of expenses" or "a blend of costs".
Instead, it succumbed to a combination of cost overruns and skepticism about Big Science projects.
The materials challenge is to find a combination of cost and efficiency that makes photovoltaic electricity economically possible.
The lack of adoption of full body scanning to date reflects concerns over a combination of cost, invasion of privacy, health risk and passenger throughput time.
In all the plans currently on the table, this expense would be offset with a combination of cost savings elsewhere and additional taxes, so that there would be no overall effect on the federal deficit.
Foreign firms should benefit in the coming years as the market matures, buyers begin to value brands and quality, and a second-hand market develops so that residual values can be measured.Local carmakers in Japan and South Korea gradually came to dominate their domestic markets through a combination of cost competitiveness, nationalistic buying and technological leadership.
But I have yet to hear a coherent argument about why the long-term problem of paying for the benefits we want — which will eventually have to be resolved through a combination of cost savings and revenue increases — should constrain our fiscal policy right now, in the midst of what remains a terrible economic slump.
A combination of cost-cutting and healthy box office in the last fiscal year has allowed the company to reduce the accumulated deficit to $736,000, from $5.15 million.
HTC is pinned its comeback on a combination of cost-cutting (15percentt layoffs) and more marketable devices, but the company said that the Internet of things, wearables and VR are also areas where it believes it can rebuild its popularity with consumers.
For the normalization of the average dwelling room area per census tract we used a combination of cost-benefit assumptions relative to social vulnerability increase (with a U-shape up to 23 m2 and a descending curve to the maximum value of over 34 m2 room space), according to the values offered by Eurostat (2014).
We developed an approach for rapid mapping of aboveground C density (ACD; units = Mg or metric tons C ha−1) on islands at a spatial resolution of 30 m (0.09 ha) using a combination of cost-effective airborne LiDAR data and full-coverage satellite data.
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